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Babe_KL

16 Oct 2012

Monday, 12 June 2006

Carrot Cake

Mmmm this is one of my favourite no-fail cake recipe. I've been making this carrot cake countless of times and most times I varies it by adding different kind of nuts and sultanas or raisins. This cake pack the punch with the large amount of carrots and nuts in it (but feel free to add more) and best of all it's moist and lovely hinted with spices. This recipe was featured in a Her World Cookbook Vol 49 circa mid-90s. I love this volume as it was themed "Festive Guide". I've tried a lot of the recipes in this book and so far they never disappoint.

Carrot Cake200g self- raising flour1 tsp ground cinnamon1 tsp mixed spice4 eggs250g castor sugar1 tsp vanilla essence250ml vegetable oil (try to use light oil ie sunflower/canola oil)pinch of salt300g carrots, grated150g sultanas50g hazelnuts/almonds50g walnuts, roughly choppedIn a large bowl, sieve flour with spices and make a well in the centre. Add eggs, sugar, vanilla essence, oil and salt. Mix lightly before incorporating the rest of the ingredients.Pour batter into a 28cm greased cake tin and bake about an hour or until skewer inserted in the centre comes out clean. Cool before frosting with cream cheese.Cream Cheese Frosting250g cream cheese1 tbsp castor sugarjuice of one orange/lemongrated zest of one orange/lemonIn a small bowl, combine all ingredients and stir throughly. Chill well before frosting the carrot cake.

This is how it looked like after frosting with the cream cheese. Prefect as a Birthday Cake! (Kindly excuse my frosting skill... I'm a noob in cake decorating heh...)

BabeLast night I bake your marble cake. And it turn out well. So today I send some to my son's teacher in his kindy. I always bake them something. Thanks for the recipe. I follow your sugar measurement as I do not like it too sweet...